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The lost Tomb of Nebamun was an ancient Egyptian tomb from the Eighteenth Dynasty located in the Theban Necropolis located on the west bank of the Nile at Thebes (present-day Luxor) in Egypt. [1] The tomb was the source of a number of famous decorated tomb scenes that are currently on display in the British Museum , London .
Nebamun is known today because of the 1820 discovery of the richly-decorated Tomb of Nebamun on the west bank of the Nile at Thebes. [2] Although the exact location of that tomb is now lost, a number of wall paintings from the tomb were acquired by the British Museum where they are now on display. [2]
English: scene from the lost tomb-chapel of Nebamun, exposed in the British Museum, scene showing the presentation of cattle to Nebamun, Inv.: BM EA 37976 Date Foto: February 2010, Painting: about 1350 BC
English: Painting from the w:Tomb of Nebamun at Thebes, showing a horse-drawn chariot and another drawn by a pair of mules, hinnies or Onagers Date circa 1350 BC
The lost Tomb of Nebamun; scientific analysis in 2008–09 indicated the tomb's location somewhere in the vicinity of Dra' Abu el-Naga' [20] Neferhotep , findspot of the Papyrus Boulaq 18 It is possible that the complexes K93.11 and K93.12 could be attributed to king Amenhotep I and his mother Ahmose-Nefertari .
The Theban Tomb TT17 is located in Dra Abu el-Naga, part of the Theban Necropolis, on the west bank of the Nile, opposite to Luxor. It is the burial place of the ancient Egyptian noble named Nebamun, who lived during the 18th Dynasty, during the reign of Amenhotep II. Nebamun was a scribe and a physician to the King.
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Banquet guests wearing head cones and amber-tinted head cone outfit, painting from the Tomb of Nebamun, c. 1350 BCE, now in the British Museum. People wearing the cones are often depicted wearing long, translucent dresses, and on some occasions kilts, with a fold of the dress draped over the left shoulder.